In today's competitive global marketplace, businesses are looking for ways to gain an edge by using technology as an enabler to help them reduce costs and at the same time, increase sales, productivity, and efficiency in the process.

In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of using business intelligence tools to gain better insights and to have a deeper understanding of business or organization operation. The information and data necessary to accomplish this usually already exists within the organization’s information system.  However, technology cost and implementation are still prohibitively expensive for most organization.  As such, we decided to address the tremendous needs and create reporting application products based on our technology to fill this void in the marketplace.

Logos Form and Report Manager Applications are pre-built applications that you can quickly install and use on your Joomla powered website.  Each application is distributed with LFRM Core which offers all of the front-end features of LFRM Professional.  And plus, there is no need to purchase any additional software. 

Some of the many ways your organization can benefit from using our reporting applications are:

• Leveraging information already in your system to make better business and strategic decision without investing in other additional costly IT system
• Leveraging our knowledge in using pre-built reports which can be easily customized for your specific needs
• Allowing you to focus more on your business and less on technology
• Familiarity of LFRM technology looks and feels you are already accustomed to
• Ability to deploy simple yet powerful business intelligence tool quickly and easily
• Extremely affordable solution and a great return on their investment

By gaining insights into trends and revelations about your business, your organization can make adjustment or strategic moves early which can your competitiveness in a constantly changing environment.  In addition, by seeing and making adjustments necessary early on, time and resources saved can be allocated for other activities to help your business grow.  Our cost effective pricing also gives your organization an added peace of mind by mitigating additional costly IT system investment.

Our VirtueMart E-commerce reporting application allows website owners/operators to get a deeper insight into their online sales and operations.  By having information regarding to sales figure and relevant information related to customers and other operational dimensions of their business, website owners/operators can leverage this information by employing strategy applicable to shifting environment conditions or changing market trends.  By having better information and insight, business can be proactive and act (early) to take advantage of market conditions instead of being reactive and react (too late) to changing market conditions which could be detrimental to the business.  

A complete demo of the reports are available on the GMITC Demo Site.  Documentation can be found on the Documentation Wiki , and questions can be asked in the Support Forum .

Please note that in order to use our reporting applications, your system must have the following requirements:

• Joomla version 1.5
• PHP 5
• MySQL 5
• LFRM Core Component (Included with our installation package)

The Logos Application packages consists of the Logos Core Component, the Logos Core Library, and an application file in XML format that you can load into Logos. Once you have completed the order and registered your site, you can then download updates for one year.

To purchase, select the product and the license that you wish to purchase.

What is the minimum requirement I need to install the reporting application on my server?

To use the reporting application, your hosting provider or your server will need to have PHP 5 and MySQL 5.0.  In addition, if you wish to modify some of the queries some knowledge of database and SQL language proficiency is also required.

What version of Joomla is required to work with the reporting application?

Joomla 1.5.  We will make the reporting application available for Joomla 1.6 when it is available.

How much does the reporting application cost?

The reporting application costs $35 for one site. Multiple site licenses are available as well. Please check our product page for more details.

Can I get free update when new version of the reporting application is available?

You can download updates for up to one year.

Once I Purchase LFRM, How Do I Receive It?

After the transaction has been processed, you will receive a download link by mail. Usually this link is mailed to you immediately. You can click on My Stuff to view information about your orders, registrations, and updates. If there are any problems, please contact us via the support forum.

Once I Have the Extensions and Library, How Do I Install Them?

Please have a look at the reporting application wiki pages at http://www.gmitc.biz/support/documentation.html .

Why Should I Register on the Forum?

You should register on the forum if you wish to receive online support. Once you become a member of the forum, you will have access to all forum discussions and other users Q & A materials about the reporting application as well as best practices, tips and tricks.

Any part of Reporting Application, such as CMS-specific extensions or the library, are delivered unencrypted and you are free to modify any of the files for your own usage. If you wish to share your modifications, please do so on the GMITC forum but be mindful to post the modifications, not the entire file.

The Reporting Application, including the core LFRM and reporting components are licensed under the GNU General Public License. The Reporting Application does require non-Joomla libraries which must be installed in order for the application to work and can be purchased from the GMITC website.

The core LFRM component Library used by the Reporting Application is a proprietary library and its redistribution and usage, in whole or in part, is restricted by the license agreement. By purchasing, installing, or using this library, you are agreeing that its distribution and usage complies with laws in your country.

The Reporting Application is provided "as is". Although GMITC has an excellent reputation for helping users on the forum, purchase of this software does not imply any official support obligations. One may request support via the GMITC forum.